Saturday, October 17, 2015

Author Interview-Casi McLean

Note from Mariposa, The original post had to be deleted and re-posted due to formatting problems. Personally I think gremlins are to blame. Special thanks to Casi for her patience with the technical difficulties.

a watery grave. But when Lacey
Montgomery's car spins out of control and hurtles into the depths of the icy,
black water, she awakens in the arms of a handsome stranger, in a place she’s
never heard of––

34 years before she was born.

When the 2012 lawyer tangles with the 1949 hunk, fire and
ice swirl into a stream of sweltering desire.

Bobby Reynolds is smitten the moment the storm-ravaged woman
opens her eyes. Learning the truth about her origins does nothing to stop the
passion from taking root in his heart, and leaves him torn between finding a
way to help Lacey return to 2012 or convincing her stay with him.

The desperation to find her way home dissolves as Lacey
falls in love with a town destined to be erased from the face of the Earth, and
the man who vows to protect it. Will the couple discover the key to a
mysterious portal before time rips them apart? Or will their star-crossed
spirits wander forever through a ghost town buried beneath the lake?

#TimeTravel, #RomanticSuspense

What inspired you to
become a writer?

And

Who are your favorite
romance characters (besides your own?)

Writing has always been a part of me as significant as my
heart and soul. My mother said I was born to write. I dictated stories to her
before I knew the alphabet. Forth grade had me mesmerized with Madeleine
L'Engle's Wrinkle In Time and I fell in love with time travel.

My first publication, The Apron String Captain, was written
at age nine, and during high school, I was an editor of my high school literary
magazine. As a young adult my interests shifted to include romance when Jude
Deveraux's Knight In Shining Armor introduced me to her hero, Nick, and the
Montgomery family captured my heart. I taught creative writing, English, and
drama from many years before my children took center stage.

Tell me what inspired
this story.

A town that time forgot––the eerie lore attached to a rural
area that sleeps beneath Atlanta’s famous man-made lake, Sidney Lanier,
fascinated me. Homes, churches and businesses still linger beneath the surface.

And Looper Speedway, a half-mile dirt track where
bootleggers competed with their souped-up cars, bared its cement stands in a
recent draught. The moonshiners of the 1940’s added built-in suspense, not
to mention the birth of NASCAR.

There’s a Lady of the Lake who haunts the ghost town
too––the lore is creepy. Swimmers get trapped among the deadfall of sheered-off
trees and town remains until they join her in her watery grave. Even expert
divers get tangled beneath the murky surface, hence the lake’s unnerving label:
Lanier never gives up its dead. The inspiration haunted me, begging
for a story to be told.

My other books include the award winning Destiny Series,
five novelette with a twist endings, and Wingless Butterfly, a memoir sparked
by discovering a maze of secrets in my past. For more information, please
visit my Amazon Author Page.